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Track 1B: PACS Advanced

This 1-day PACS advanced training can be taken either together with the 3-day PACS certification and/or separately.

Detailed Learning Objectives

Students will get to understand the role of new PACS architectures, aka PACS 2.0 which includes a VNA and exchange with external information exchanges using IHE protocols. They will understand the role of the HIE (Health Information Exchange) and which IHE standards are used to exchange information between hospitals using HIE?s and direct communications. There will also a refresher of DICOM and HL7 applicable to the transactions used for the HIE communication.

Your Instructor

Your instructor is Herman Oosterwijk (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanoosterwijk) who is a well know teacher, author and consultant for health care imaging and IT and taught thousands of students on this subject over the past 20 years in many regions including the USA, Latin America Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Audience

The intended audience is PACS administrators, service and support engineers, interface analysts, project managers and software engineers.

Contents & Schedule

New PACS developments: PACS 1.0 vs PACS 2.0

Vendor Neutral Archiving

Issues and concerns with VNA's

How does PACS fit into the Health Information Exchanges (HIE)

DICOM refresher (data formats and protocols)

HL7 refresher (messages and formats)

New standards developments in DICOM and HL7 (DICOMweb, CDA, FHIR)

IHE radiology important profiles

IHE ITI profiles and how does it fit with HIE?s

What Is Included

Handouts of the slides

Copy of PACS e-book

Morning and afternoon refreshments, and lunch

Upcoming Classes

There are no seminars currently scheduled.

Note: In the unlikely event that OTech has to cancel this class, registrants will be refunded 50% of the seminar cost. Registrants will be entitled to keep all training materials sent to them for study prior to the class.